She Wants To Ride

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(Anita Cochran)
18 a young girl, graduates from school
She's got the future to do the things she wants to do.
Little did she know, she would let her heart give in
The plans she made for life would change so she could be with him.
A baby's born but she knows, their love is just not right,
The pressure's on, is it right or wrong for her to change her life,
Or should she stay committed and hold her feelings deep inside,
Society has got her down and she wants to run wild.
She wants to ride, a horse cross country
She wants to feel, wind brush against her skin
She needs to find, what she's been missing
She wants to ride, until she finds herself again
She got the courage up to go out on her own
She took the little child and found them a new home
She's working now, but it's so hard down at the factory.
With little pay at the end of the day she can barely make ends meet.
Years went by so quickly, though it seemed like time stood still
Standing by her front door, she could feel the winter's chill.
She looks to the horizon where she sees the setting sun
She feels the urge inside her and it makes her want to run
She wants to ride, a horse cross country
She wants to feel, wind brush against her skin
She needs to find, what she's been missing
She wants to ride, until she finds herself again
Even though she's had a rough life,
she wouldn't trade it for the world
The treasures that she owns lie in her little girl.
And when she feels the old desires,
that her troubles often bring
She can go to bed at night and find them in her dreams...where
She wants to ride, a horse cross country
She wants to feel, wind brush against her skin
She needs to find, what she's been missing
She wants to ride, until she finds herself again
Oh oh, she wants to ride
Oh she wants to ride, she wants to ride,
she wants to ride, she wants to ride
She wants to ride until she finds herself again.

Need me a bar on an alleyway
Death on a pale horse to ride away
Disease bacteria culture dip plate
Bagged take away
And it´s all right
Just let it ride
A fleet of dragon barges at berth
To sail off the edge of the earth
Setting sail for some bad luck
Could fuck some mean shit up
And it´s all right
Just let it ride
If I should lose my very soul
In some distant port of call
I would still find my way home
If I took pride and I would fall
My wings could not be shorn
My heaven would just be cold
Saw life as a girl from the avenue
Daddy´s sunshine with eyes of blue
Been more content with a cross eyed witch
Back in an alley ditch
And it´s all right
Just let it ride
For all the things I´ve said and known
I guess some reason could be shown
Life can be easy
Life can be kind
Plain sodomy in the behind
Show me a bar on the alleyway
A cross eyed witch to steal my soul away
For I could die on an alleyway
With a smile on my lips
For all the yesterdays
Give me a bar on an alleyway

Try'n be the Rock of Gibraltar
A stick that won't break in the wind
I hope and pray my step don't falter
I'd rather be breathin'
Than somethin' I've been
I wanna be like Jonathan Seagull
Try to fly high on his wing
Ain't no need to be fearful
Lift up your voices
It's time you should sing
It's a great life
If you don't weaken
It's a great life
If you try and be strong
Turn your head and face the season
Ride the wind before it's gone
Hollow is the sound of the Reaper
How quick 'n he cut through your soul
Funny how the mountain looks steeper
Rather be climbin'
Than fall in the hole
Now I know we can't get there
But you won't know unless you try
We should all be headin' somewhere
If you ain't movin'
Then you should ask why
It's a great life
If you don't weaken
It's a great life
If you try and be strong
Turn your head and face the season
Ride the wind before it's gone
It's a great life
If you don't weaken
It's a great life
If you try and be strong
Turn your head and face the season
Ride the wind before it's gone
Ahh yeah
Ride the wind before it's gone
Hey hey
Ride the wind before it's gone
Ride the wind before it's gone
Yeah yeah
Ride the wind before it's gone
Whoo yeah yeah
Ride the wind before it's gone
Ride the wind before it's gone

[Hook - Aloe Blacc:]
I'm gonna get in my car
But wherever I go
Seems like trouble will find me
And I don't want trouble to find me
I admit I play hide and seek with the violence
String theories together just like a violin
Red roses, blue violets
The top pick in the cockpit
That's fly shit
Like defecating on a private plane, it's simple
G4 with it, women with me
In the present, here's a test
If you tour the future then the past represents death
Life, will it take me under? I don't know
The good die young and the ugly get dough
I feel this prickly feeling on the back of my neck
The reaper tippy toe behind me everywhere that I go
That's why I ride slow, I used to be in a rush
Fast life, slow motion
These days, I'm so focused
And as soon as the chauffeur hold this door open I'ma
[Hook]
Here's a tiny tip
There's no escapin' the trouble that come with this grand hustle
You willin' to give everything for the glistenin' wrists
Findin' the right fabric to keep your family knit
Vanity slave, runnin' red lights, smokin' weed, they in love with you
When you're untouchable, sonny
You was born to fuckin' die, 'til then get money
The belly of the beast ain't no tummy, you mistaken
Track record longer than a train station
You just record tracks, what a waste of wax
Name an individual exempt
From a candlelight vigil and bring me his head
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Optimistic but they say I need an ophthalmologist
Now they just look at me like they owe me apologies
So many red eyes I might need Visine
Audio pilot, that's why I'm so high up
The trouble still finds us like a citation, that's why I'm hatin'
The waitin' and silent conversation with God like
Why the Hell is Heaven so far?
Don't need a stairway, I need a rocketship to blast off
So what? No buts, I work my ass off
And all my champions comply
It's do or die when I ride, Tracy Chapman didn't die, nah
[Aloe Blacc x2:]
I'm gonna get in my car, I'm gonna drive real fast
But wherever I go
Seems like trouble will find me
And I don't want trouble to find me
[Aloe Blacc:]
No more, no more, no more
I don't want trouble to find me no more
Said I don't want trouble to find me no more
I don't want trouble to find me no more
No more, no more, no more, no more

I was free when we met
You were eating a burito
With a girl - some brunette
At El Torosco's
Then you smiled like you knew
Someday we'd be together
How do I feel
ever since I walked away from you
I miss you for real
Everyday of my life
How do I feel
Now that it's over
Well the thing that I miss the most
Is missing you
I was lost for a while
Every place brought back a memory
Of a kiss or a smile that you gave me
Now it's changed
Well I guess
More and more I miss you
Less and less
Sometimes it's hard to let you go
Sometimes
You get trapped in a time of your life
But you know it gets a little easier over time
I miss the moody walks in the rain
I miss the poetry, I miss the days
I miss the sad songs I used to play
But the one thing I miss the most
Is missing you.

A million and one thousand things are screaming in my head
And I can't seem to forget, can't stop thinking about you
I could ride across the sky in a bicycle built for two
Could you teach me how to ride, like you taught me how to feel alive?
And not a single day goes by when I don't wish for you
To watch me pause to find the words to steal your heart away
But I'll play every word back round and round to try and find
A clue you might have left behind to say you feel the same
And even if I know
I'll never be your Leo
I'll keep holding on
A hundred and three thousand ghosts are laughing in my dreams
My eyes are failing me, everywhere I look I see you
I could bake a chocolate cake for you with tiers up to the moon
Could you show me how it's done, like you showed me how to fall in love?
You'll never see that I'm the one who never left you
When you needed me to cry to 'cos your heart got broke again
So I'll play until the strings on my guitar give out,
And I'll be aching from the pain of trying to pretend
And even if I know
I'll never be your Leo
I'll keep holding on